Romantic Landscape
English 233, Fall 2001, Alan Liu
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The Six-Footers


    The Hay-Wain
The Hay-Wain (Sketch) (V&A) The Hay-Wain (Exhibition) (Nat. Gallery)

Sketch of Willy Lott's House
(1816) oil sketch, 7 1/4 x 8 7/8", Ipswich Museum and Gallery

The Hay-Wain Locale (Photo)

 

cf., Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsmans's Contract (1982)
 

The Hay-Wain Locale (Photo 1)

The Hay-Wain Locale (Photo 2)

The Hay-Wain (Sketch) (V&A)

The Hay-Wain (Exhibition) (Nat. Gallery)

Peter Paul Rubens, Chateau Steen or Het Steen (1636) oil on oak, 131.2 x 229.2 cm, National Gallery, London

Detail of The Hay-Wain

The Hay-Wain (Exhibition) (Nat. Gallery)



     The Leaping Horse

The Leaping Horse (Sketch)
(1824-1825) oil sketch Victoria and Albert Museum

Detail

The Leaping Horse (Exhibition)
(1825 exh.) oil on canvas, 56 x 73 3/4", Royal Academy, London

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Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath, with a Boy Sitting on a Bank
(c. 1825) oil on canvas, 33.3 x 50.2 cm, Tate Gallery

Hampstead Cloud Studies (1820's)


Golding Constable's Flower Garden
(1815) oil on canvas, 33 x 50.8 cm, Ipswich, Museums and Galleries
Golding Constable's Kitchen Garden
(1815) oil on canvas, 33 x 50.8 cm, Ipswich, Museums and Galleries
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     Hadleigh Castle

Hadleigh Castle (Sketch)
(c. 1828-1829) oil sketch Tate Gallery

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Hadleigh Castle near Southend
(1814) pencil, 3 1/4 x 4 3/8", Victoria and Albert Museum

Photo 1 of Locale

Sir George Beaumont
Peele Castle
(c. 1806) oil, 13 3/8 x 19 3/4", private collection (cf., Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas, 1806)

Hadleigh Castle - The Mouth of the Thames - Morning After a Stormy Night
(1829 exh.) oil, 48 x 63 3/4", Yale Center for British Art

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Resources for Study Constable

  • C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (J. Lehmann, 1949) (Arts Library: ND497.C5 L4 1951)
  • Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Cross River, 1991)
  • Ronald Paulson, Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable (Yale Univ. Press, 1982)
  • Sarah Cove, "Constable's Oil Painting Materials and Technique," in Parris and Fleming-Williams, pp. 493-518
  • Some Museums:
    • Yale Center for British Art
    • National Gallery, London
    • Tate Gallery, London
    • Victoria & Albert Museum
    • National Gallery, Washington
    • Huntington Library & Art Gallery
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